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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts%20on%20distinguishing%20versions%20for%20--extern-html-root%3F/near/216286037" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Joshua Nelson <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts.20on.20distinguishing.20versions.20for.20--extern-html-root.3F.html#216286037">(Nov 10 2020 at 22:53)</a>:</h4>
<p>I'm not sure I'm the right person to review <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78909">https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78909</a>. </p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8296">https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8296</a>:  If there are multiple versions of the same package within the dep graph, rustdoc will only link to one of them. To fix this, Cargo would need to pass metadata info into rustdoc (such as the package version).</p>
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<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="120518">@Eric Huss</span> maybe you're interested in taking a look?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts%20on%20distinguishing%20versions%20for%20--extern-html-root%3F/near/216286077" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Joshua Nelson <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts.20on.20distinguishing.20versions.20for.20--extern-html-root.3F.html#216286077">(Nov 10 2020 at 22:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>cc <span class="user-mention" data-user-id="210267">@Nemo157</span></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts%20on%20distinguishing%20versions%20for%20--extern-html-root%3F/near/216286135" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Joshua Nelson <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts.20on.20distinguishing.20versions.20for.20--extern-html-root.3F.html#216286135">(Nov 10 2020 at 22:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>one thing I'm concerned about is the command lines are now a <em>lot</em> longer than before, and they were already long</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts%20on%20distinguishing%20versions%20for%20--extern-html-root%3F/near/216291615" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Eric Huss <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts.20on.20distinguishing.20versions.20for.20--extern-html-root.3F.html#216291615">(Nov 10 2020 at 23:59)</a>:</h4>
<p>left a comment on the PR</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts%20on%20distinguishing%20versions%20for%20--extern-html-root%3F/near/216291990" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Joshua Nelson <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/246057-t-cargo/topic/Thoughts.20on.20distinguishing.20versions.20for.20--extern-html-root.3F.html#216291990">(Nov 11 2020 at 00:03)</a>:</h4>
<p>I'm going to assign you if you don't mind, I think you've thought about it more <span aria-label="sweat smile" class="emoji emoji-1f605" role="img" title="sweat smile">:sweat_smile:</span></p>



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